Practical Eventually-Consistent Web Apps on Riak

Practical Eventually-Consistent Web Apps on Riak

"Eventual consistency! Scalability! Schema-free!" is the rallying call of the NoSQL world. But what does it mean to be eventually-consistent, to be scalable, to be schema-free? Why should you, as a web developer, care? Let's demystify these terms and then explore some ways that Riak, an "eventually-consistent, scalable, schema-free" datastore, can be put to practical use in web applications. You might just find that you've been using eventual consistency all along!